| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This group was expelled from Gaul by Clovis I [[the First]] in the Battle of Vouillé [[voo-ee-YEH]]. Jordanes [[jor-DAY-nees]] described the kings of these people, such as Theodoric I [[the First]], as descendants of the Thervingi. These people had turbulent relations with Rome, and they ultimately sacked the city under the leadership of Alaric I [[the First]]. For ten points, name this Germanic people who once occupied the territory west of the Ostrogoths. | Visigoths (prompt on "Goths;" do not accept or prompt on "Ostrogoths") |
| This man, with Émilie du Châtelet [[eh-mee-LEE doo shah-teh-LEH]], translated and promoted the writings of Isaac Newton into French. This man received a French copy of the Nakaz law code from his long-time pen pal, Catherine the Great. In a 1759 satire, this man used the Great Lisbon earthquake to mock Leibniz’s idea that we live in the "best of all possible worlds." For ten points, name this French Enlightenment philosopher, the author of Candide. | Voltaire (or François-Marie Arouet [[ah-roo-EH]]; or M. de Voltaire) |
| The current name of this school honors a wealthy textile merchant and president of the Metropolitan Opera, whose 1919 bequest to this institution was the largest ever given for the "advancement of music" at the time. In 1905, this school was founded under its original name, the Institute of Musical Art, by Frank Damrosch. With a theatre program co- founded in 1968 by John Houseman, this is, for ten points, what private performing arts school in New York City? | The Juilliard School |
| One former holder of this title was captured at Pizzo [[PEET-soh]] before his execution, and that holder of this title routed forces at the Battle of Abukir. Another holder of this title promised to bring a certain man back to Paris in an iron cage, but instead joined that man, forcing Louis XVIII [[the Eighteenth]] to flee France. For ten points, identify this French military distinction that was held by Joachim Murat [[joh-ah-SHAHM moo-RAH]] and Michel Ney [[mee-SHEHL NEH]]. | Marshal of the Empire (accept Marshal Ney; or Marshal Murat; accept Marshal of France) |
| In one battle, this leader convinced his cousin and rival, Zubayr, to leave the field. This leader was on the verge of routing his enemy when they used arbitration to avoid further bloodshed at the Battle of Siffin. This ruler was assassinated during the First Fitna, a war that ended the Rashidun Caliphate. Initially refusing to recognize Abu Bakr’s authority after the death of Muhammad, this is, for ten points, what first Shia imam? | Ali ibn Abi Talib (accept either underlined portion) |
| Similarities between the bichrome pottery of these people and that from the Aegean suggests these people may have been Greek migrants. These people have been identified with the Peleset, and were attested in Egyptian records of the Sea People. Legendary members of this people include the seductress Delilah and the giant Goliath. For ten points, name this ancient people who are portrayed as arch enemies of the Israelites in the Old Testament. | Philistines (prompt on “Canaanites”) |
| This man names an ancient Greek festival that honors Hera’s reconciliation with Zeus. Celebrated by the people of Boeotia [[bee-OH-shah]], a festival named after this man features the burning image of a bride. The xoanon [[ZOH-uh-nahn]] is a devotional image associated with this man who crafted a wooden cow for Pasiphae. For ten points, identify this man who created the labyrinth and escaped from King Minos with his son, Icarus [[ih- KAH-russ]]. | Daedalus [[DED-ah-luss]] (prompt on answers including "Daedala;" be lenient on pronunciation) |
| Roy Campbell wrote a poem "On the Martyrdom of [this man]" who headed a company called the "The Shack." Until 1953, a general ban on the works of this man was instituted by the Falange [[fah-LAHNZH]] Party. This member of the "Generation of '27" was assassinated in 1936, and works that were a part of this man's "Rural Trilogy" were opposed by the Franco regime. For ten points, identify this influential Spanish author of Yerma and Blood Wedding. | Federico García Lorca (accept "On the Martyrdom of F. Garcia Lorca;" prompt on partial answers) |
| Abraham Lincoln ordered this man to rescind an emancipation edict that he had issued early in the Civil War in Missouri. Though they later reconciled, this man infuriated Thomas Hart Benton by eloping with Benton’s daughter, Jessie. This man’s surname concluded an alliterative political slogan that began with “Free Soil, Free Men.” For ten points, identify this man nicknamed "Pathfinder," the first presidential candidate of the modern Republican Party. | John Charles Frémont (accept "Free Soil, Free Men, Fremont") |
| The first supplementary act was passed in an effort to strengthen this act. A political cartoon criticizing this act depicts a turtle with the name "Ograbme" nipping at the pants of a New England merchant carrying a barrel of goods. The Non-Intercourse Act was passed in the final days of the Jefferson Presidency to amend, for ten points, what ineffective trade exclusion meant to halt British and French interference? | Embargo Act of 1807 |
| In 1856, this college was established as its state's "Agricultural College and Model Farm." This college was the first land-grant university, and its MacKay Hall was home to one of the first home economics departments in the U.S. Alumni of this university include former president of Taiwan Lee Teng-hui, Senator Joni Ernst, and George Washington Carver. For ten points, name this university whose Cyclones can be seen at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames. | Iowa State University of Science and Technology (prompt on "ISU"; do not accept or prompt on "University of Iowa") |
| Iowa was the first state to accept the provisions of this 1862 statute. This statute allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges and was named for a Vermont Republican congressman. | Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 (accept Land-Grant Agricultural and Mechanical College Act of 1862; accept Morrill Land-Grant Acts; accept Justin Smith Morrill) |
| A composition by this man was created to honor the winners of an essay contest held by the Washington Post. This man names a musical instrument that is essentially an easier-to-carry version of the tuba. When this man was thirteen, his father stopped him from joining the circus and arranged for him to become an apprentice musician in the Marine Corps. For ten points, name this "March King" who composed "Stars and Stripes Forever." | John Philip Sousa (accept Sousaphone) |
| This Sousa march was initially composed at the order of President Arthur as a possible replacement for "Hail to the Chief." This march is now generally accepted as the official march of the U.S. Marine Corps. | "Semper Fidelis" (accept "Semper Fi") |
| One of this country's dictators shot himself to "enter history" and was known as the "Father of the Poor." This country, which was once led by Juscelino Kubitschek [[zhoo-seh- LEE-noh KOO-beh-shek"]], was the last Western nation to abolish slavery, doing so with the 1888 Golden Law. Once led by Getulio Vargas and the Estado Novo, for ten points, what is this large South American country that was once a colony of Portugal? | Federative Republic of Brazil (or Republica Federativa do Brasil; accept Empire of Brazil) |
| Both of Brazil's emperors were known by this name, which was also the first name of the European who discovered Brazil. | Pedro (accept Pedro I [[the First]] or II [[the Second]]; accept Pedro Álvares Cabral; accept Peter in place of Pedro) |
| This man's second solo album, Sweet Insanity, was rejected for publication, both for including the rap song "Smart Girls" as well as for being co-written by this man's former psychologist, Eugene Landy. This man was portrayed by both Paul Dano and John Cusack in the biopic Love & Mercy. This man wrote songs such as "Good Vibrations" and "I Get Around" with bandmate Mike Love. For ten points, name this musician, a founder and lead singer of The Beach Boys. | Brian Wilson (or Brian Douglas Wilson) |
| Brian Wilson collaborated with jingle writer Tony Asher to compose this 1966 album which departed from the earlier style of The Beach Boys. This highly influential album contains such songs as "Wouldn't it be Nice" and "God Only Knows." | Pet Sounds |
| This man was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1924 by Karl H. Wiik [[WEEK]], a Finnish politician. Bernie Sanders produced a 1979 documentary about this man and displays a plaque dedicated to this man in his congressional office. Clarence Darrow defended this man in court following his arrest for leading the Pullman Strike of 1894. For ten points, identify this American Socialist who was incarcerated while conducting one of his five campaigns for president. | Eugene V (ictor) "Gene" Debs |
| Sentenced to ten years in prison for speaking out against America’s involvement in World War One, Eugene Debs was convicted for violating this 1917 law that was passed to safeguard the U.S. from interference by foreign intelligence agents. | Espionage Act of 1917 |
| Lawrence Veiller led a committee overseeing these buildings and helped draft a 1901 act to ban their construction. Many of these places were the subject of reforms in Chicago's "Little Sicily" neighborhood. The book How the Other Half Lives included photographs of people in these places, which were concentrated on the Lower East Side. Smallpox and cholera often spread throughout, for ten points, what buildings that once housed much of the New York poor? | Tenements (or Tenement Houses; accept Tenement House Committee; accept New York State Tenement House Act; prompt on "apartment" or "flat" or other synonyms) |
| How the Other Half Lives was written by this Danish-American social reformer and photojournalist who endorsed the implementation of "model tenements." | Jacob Riis [[REESS]] (or Jacob August Riis; be lenient on pronuncation) |
| In 1918, this man was elected to represent Harrow in the House of Commons as a Conservative, though he was later elected for Smethwick as a Laborite. This man was appointed chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and founded the New Party in 1931 after drafting his namesake memorandum. This supporter of Mussolini's BUF Party lost support after the fall of France and the beginning of the Blitz. For ten points, name this founder of the British Union of Fascists. | Oswald Mosley (or Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet; accept Baron Mosley; accept Mosley Memorandum) |
| Mosley was high on the list of potential heads of a collaborationist government should Nazi Germany have succeeded in what planned naval invasion of the British Isles? | Operation Sea Lion (or Unternehmen Seelöwe) |
| Years following this disaster, State Attorney General Dana Nessel dropped charges against one city's council and former governor Rick Snyder for gross negligence. General Motors first raised alarms about corrosive water during this disaster in a nearby source, while elevated lead levels in children later confirmed the existence of this health emergency. For ten points, name this 2010s "Crisis" where an eastern Michigan city had undrinkable water. | Flint Water Crisis (accept word descriptions) |
| The Flint Water Crisis led to a response by which government agency, a subset of Homeland Security, which responds to disasters? | FEMA (accept Federal Emergency Management Agency) |
| Term for the cultural "rebirth" of African-American culture in Harlem in the 1920s. | Harlem Renaissance (accept New Negro Movement) |
| Era during which clubs along 133rd Street illegally sold alcohol after the passage of the 18th Amendment. | Prohibition (or Temperance; prompt on answers such as "1920s" or "1930s") |
| Event during which African-Americans moved from the South in the early 20th century. | Great Migration (or Great Northern Migration; or Black Migration) |
| Jamaican-born leader of the "Back to Africa" movement who founded the Black Star Line and established an UNIA chapter in Harlem. | Marcus Garvey (or Marcus Mosiah Garvey Sr.) |
| Caribbean-born American founding father, whose namesake Grange is a national memorial in Harlem. | Alexander Hamilton |
| Harlem-raised mayor in the 1990s who was criticized for his handling of the Crown Heights Riots in Harlem. | David Dinkins (or David Norman Dinkins) |
| Ballroom, known as the "Heartbeat of Harlem," at which Ella Fitzgerald got her start. | Savoy Ballroom |
| U.S. representative, nicknamed "Mr. Civil Rights" for his work with the Abyssinian Baptist Church. | Adam Clayton Powell Jr. |
| Ocean that named a line of Nazi fortifications to protect their continental holdings during World War Two. | Atlantic Ocean (accept Atlantic Wall) |
| Capital city on the Golden Horn that was protected by the Theodosian Walls. | Constantinople (prompt on "Istanbul") |
| Greek city-state whose "Long Walls" stretched to Piraeus [[pee-RAY-ooss]] on the Aegean [[ah-JEE-un]]. | Athens |
| Roman emperor who names a wall in Roman Britain that was superseded by the Antonine Wall. | Hadrian (or Publius Aelius Hadrianus; accept Hadrian's Wall) |
| Line of fortifications built by France in the wake of World War One. | Maginot [[mah-zhee-NOH]] Line (accept phonetic pronunciations) |
| Finnish fortification line to protect against Soviet attack, named for a field marshal. | Mannerheim Line |
| Line of German fortifications stretching from the Netherlands to Switzerland. | Siegfried Line (accept Westwall) |
| 17th century French engineer who perfected the "star-fort" design. | Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban [[voh-BAHN]] (accept Seigneur de Vauban; accept Marquis de Vauban) |
| Massive northern fortification of which they built the major sections. | Great Wall of China |
| Ceramic material, often painted blue and white, typically called "china." | Porcelain (prompt on "Ming pottery" and similar answers) |
| Dynasty that succeeded the Ming after Beijing fell to Li Zicheng's rebel army. | Qing [[CHING]] Dynasty (or Great Qing) |
| Palace complex in Beijing that includes the Halls of Supreme Harmony, Central Harmony, and Preserving Harmony. | Forbidden City (or Zijincheng) |
| Muslim eunuch who led seven treasure voyages under the Yongle [[YONG-LUH]] Emperor. | Zheng He [[ZHUNG-HUH]] (or Cheng Ho Ma He; or Ma Sangbao; accept phonetic pronunciations) |
| Founder of the dynasty who introduced paper currency to China. | Hongwu Emperor (or Zhu Yuanzhang; or Guorui) |
| Rebellion that led to the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the installation of the Ming. | Red Turban Rebellion (s) |
| 1363 naval battle, the final battle of the rebellion that led to the formation of the Ming dynasty. | Battle of Lake Poyang |
| This man names a comedy song by Tom Lehrer that claims this man is "apoliticial" and his “allegiance is ruled by expedience.” After escaping to Austria at the end of World War Two, this man’s brother approached a private in the U.S. Army on a children’s bicycle (+) to surrender on this man’s behalf. This man appeared on an episode of Disneyland in 1955, and he emigrated to the United States as part of Operation (*) Paperclip. For ten points, identify this aerospace engineer who helped design the V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany. | Wernher von Braun (or Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun) |
| A senator from this U.S. state ran for president with Burton K. Wheeler in 1924. The slogan "Congress needs a tail-gunner" was used by a senator from this state, which was also represented by an outspoken opponent of the Aldrich–Vreeland Act known as "Fighting Bob" who ran for president as a (+) candidate of the Progressive Party. Robert La Follette was a senator from this state that was also represented by a prominent 1950s (*) opponent of communism. For ten points, name this Midwest state, whose senators have included Joseph McCarthy. | Wisconsin |
| After an attempt to block the enfranchisement of 120 men in this city, a 1782 revolution broke out and was put down by Charles Gravier [[grahv-YEH]]. Michael Servetus was killed in this city, which was the birthplace of the author of Discourse on Inequality, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. (+) A reformer relocated to this city after leaving Strasbourg, and that reformer who fled to this city authored the (*) Institutes of the Christian Religion. For ten points, name this Swiss city where John Calvin preached during the Reformation. | Geneva (accept Genève) |
| Opponents fleeing retribution from this force were handed over at the Austrian border during the Bleiburg repatriations. This force's headquarters in Drvar [[dur-VAR]] was the target of Operation Knight's Move, in which enemies of this force, including the Home (+) Guard and the Chetniks, supported an unsuccessful German hang-glider assault on this group's leadership. Josip Tito (*) led, for ten points, what anti-Nazi guerrilla army that transformed into the post-war government of Yugoslavia? | Yugoslav Partisans (or National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia; or National Liberation Army; prompt on answers such "Yugoslav Army") |
| It's not St. Augustine, but this writer stressed the importance of viriditas, a maintenance of spiritual and physical health, in works like Causae et Curae [[KAW- zay et KOO-ray]]. This writer created the tongue Lingua Ignota, a mystical constructed language used to pen (+) "divinely inspired" music only she could read. In preparation for the Synod of Trier [[TREE-uh]], this woman wrote her visions in the Scivias [[SKIV-ee-us]]. (*) For ten points, identify this 12th century German abbess and mystic from Bingen. | Hildegard von Bingen (or Saint Hildegard; prompt on " (von) Bingen" before mentioned; prompt on "Sibyl of the Rhine") |
| This player won the first men’s singles title in the “open era” period of the U.S. Open but deferred the prize money to Tom Okker to preserve his amateur status for the Davis Cup. This man won a tense, all-American Grand Slam final against a man who was at the time opposing him (+) in two separate lawsuits due to this man’s role as ATP president, and this man is the namesake of a stadium in Flushing Meadows, Queens. Jimmy Connors lost in 1975 to, for ten points, what civil rights activist who died of (*) AIDS in 1993, the first Black man to win Wimbledon? | Arthur Ashe (or Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr.) |
| This man, who served as the first honorary mayor of Beverly Hills, earlier worked in a South African circus and as a gaucho in Argentina. This person became known on Broadway for his roles in the Ziegfeld Follies where he was known as "The Ropin' Fool." (+) Some of this man's sayings include "I am not a member of an organized political party. I am a Democrat" and "I never met a man I didn't like." Dying along with Wiley Post in a 1935 (*) plane crash in Alaska, this is, for ten points, what American Vaudevillian who names a major airport in Oklahoma? | Will Rogers (or William Penn Adair Rogers) |
| After the Fall of France, Marshal Leclerc headquartered his Free French forces in this present-day country's capital, from which he launched a campaign against Gabon. David Dacko was placed back into power by France following the ouster of the eccentric Emperor Jean-Bedel (+) Bokassa. Following a Bush War, this country plunged into an ongoing Civil War in protest of the regime of François Bozizé [[boh- ZEE-zeh]]. (*) For ten points, name this war-torn African country, governed since 1906 from Bangui. | Central African Republic (or CAR; accept Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka; or République centrafricaine) |
| This president was known to intimidate people with his namesake "Treatment” by poking them in the chest while leaning over them. This president pushed for the Great Society welfare legislation as part of his War on (+) Poverty, and this president’s signature legislation was a sweeping Civil Rights Act. Becoming president after a shooting (*) in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald, this is, for ten points, what successor of John F. Kennedy? | Lyndon Baines Johnson (or LBJ) |
| This South Dakota National Memorial, sculpted by Gutzon Borglum, is sometimes called the "Shrine of Democracy." but is known to the Lakota as "Six Grandfathers." | Mount Rushmore National Memorial |